Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
 | Warner Books, 1991, Paperback Customer Rating: 360 reviews Recommend |
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The renowned author of the classic Mind Over Back Pain has written a new guide examining revolutionary treatments to relieve pain without exercise, medication, or physical therapy.
Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain — Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS) — and isn't really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods don't work). According to John E. Sarno, M.D., TMS is the major cause of pain in the back, neck, shoulders, buttocks, and limbs — and it is caused not by structural abnormalities but by the mind's effort to repress emotions. He's not saying that your pain is all in your head; rather, he's saying that the battle going on in your mind results in a real physical disorder that may affect muscles, nerves, tendons, or ligaments. An injury may have triggered the disorder, but is not the cause of the amount or intensity of the resulting pain. According to Sarno, the mind tricks you into not facing repressed emotion by making you focus on pain in the body. When this realization sinks in ("and it must sink in, for mere intellectual appreciation of the process is not enough"), the trick doesn't work any more, and there's no need for the pain. (Healing Back Pain should not be used for self-diagnosis. Always consult a physician for chronic or acute back pain.) — Joan Price
Title: Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
Sales Rank: 2959 in Books
Author: John E. Sarno
Publisher: Warner Books, 1991-02-01, Paperback, 208 pages, ISBN: 0446392308
Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches, 0.35 pounds
- Literally A Lifesaver
- Dr. Sarno's book was literally a lifesaver for me. I had heard about his revolutionary theories on the radio, and was fascinated with the mind-body connection. I don't have any back pain, but read the book applying the same theories to my migraines and frequent heartburn. The results were amazing. Improvement didn't occur overnight or without many,… More reviews
- Too narrow minded of a view
- I understand that sometimes back pain can be in your mind, but to attribute every type of back pain to always being in your head is a little far fetched. … More reviews
- Life changer
- I've read this book about 5 years ago, and didn't think about writing a review for it. Just now, as I was searching for something else, I came across this book and I had to write about it.
Five years removed from my first encounter with it, I can safely say that it was a life changer. Like many here,… More reviews
- Anti-depressants may cause back pain
- This book was recommended to me during a time I suffered from severe back and neck pain. The pain went on for over a year. I went to see many doctors and physical therapists, and none of them mentioned the side-effect connection. Finally, a massage therapist brought it to my attention that the anti-depressants I was taking was causing the pain. I stopped them, and… More reviews
- Learning to read might be the first emotional problem to overcome
- I was sort of amazed that at least five reviewers here knocked Dr. Sarno's book because they couldn't find a method in the book to follow. For example:
"I read it, and it didn't change a thing. And there is no description of the actual method."
"Sarno's book helped me understand the cause of my back pain, but I was left with no clear… More reviews
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